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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2016 — General Studies · Question 42 of 200

Q42
History of IndiaBritish Rule: Administration, Economy & Society
In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff who of the following established Hindu College at Calcutta?
  1. a.HLV Derozio
  2. b.Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
  3. c.Keshab Chandra Sen
  4. d.Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Answer: (D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Hindu College (now Presidency University) was established in 1817 in Calcutta by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in collaboration with David Hare (a watchmaker-philanthropist) and David Scott, along with other reformers. It later became a centre of the Young Bengal movement.

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